Improvement in vegetable-knives



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Letters Patent No. 106,473, dated August 16, 187,0.

IMPROVMBNT IN VEG-ETABLE-KNIVS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, FRED. DURAND and WILLLIM F. GILBERT, of Derby, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Vegetable-Knife; and we do hereby declare the tollowing,when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and representiu Figure 1 a top view, and in Figure 2, a central section. Y

4This invention relates to an improvement in knives for paring vegetables, the obj'ect being greater facility for cutting out defective parts; and

It consists informing in the end ofthe blade a small scoop-shaped cutter, by means of which the eyes of potatoes and other defects in vegetables may be easily removed.

in the manner herein set forth.

A is the blade, formed from suitable metal, itted t0 a handle, B, the end or point of the blade terminating in a circular scoop-shaped end, C, as seen in the accompanying drawings, the edge of the scoop being brought to an edge, so as to readily cut the vegeta- The blade of the knife is used for paring vegetables in the usual manner, and the end, formed as described, affords a ready instrument for removing the defective port-ions.

XVe claim as our invention- As an article of manufacture, the knife-blade A, provided with the scoop-shaped end C, substantially FRED. DURAND. WM. F. GILBERT. Wtnesses:

T. G. BIRDsEY, JOSEPH TOMLINSON. 

